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Directory is answering right now. Last checked 10 min ago. It exposes 3 tools. Last commit 2 Apr 2026.

Discover and query every business on ANOTS — search, ask, or find-and-ask over MCP.

Uptime history 47 days of history
47 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
3
Tools
read from the server
67 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 2 Apr 2026

What the code does

We read the source, 21 h ago · tools taken from the live server · rules 3dff92dd89df

Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

Runs an external command src/gateway/BifrostProcessManager.ts:107
    this.process = cp.spawn(binPath, ['--config', this.configFilePath!], {

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

This code can reach further than it looks

We found places where it runs commands, builds paths or queries from values it is given. None of that is a flaw by itself — it becomes one when the code changes, and code changes quietly between releases. We re-read it on every one.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 10 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add directory --transport http https://api.anots.com/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "directory": {
      "url": "https://api.anots.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.directory]
url = "https://api.anots.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "directory": {
      "url": "https://api.anots.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "directory": {
      "url": "https://api.anots.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

and
find_and_ask
Discover the most relevant ANOTS businesses for a need AND ask each one in a single step, returning their answers side by side. The fastest way to answer a purchase-intent or research question across the directory.
ask
ask_business
Ask a specific business's ANOTS agent a question, by slug. The agent answers from that business's own knowledge base and tools (live data, not scraped HTML). Get the slug from search_businesses.
businesses
search_businesses
Search the ANOTS directory for businesses whose AI agent can answer a question or need. Returns matching businesses with their slug, name, what they do, and agent-card URL. Use this first to discover which agents to ask.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://api.anots.com/mcp streamable-http answering 27 ms 10 min ago

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Directory — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Directory do?
It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: ask_business, find_and_ask, search_businesses. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Directory working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 67 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Directory?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Directory need an API key?
No. Directory completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Directory?
It answers our handshake in 67 ms on average, which is faster than 86% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is Directory open source?
We cannot say either way: written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.